Infants ask for help when they know they don't know

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3492-3496

  Goupil, Louise ^a   Romand Monnier, Margaux ^a   Kouider, Sid ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Cognition; Infants; Metacognition; Performance monitoring; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METACOGNITION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NONVERBAL MEMORY TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL MEMORY; COGNITION; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGY;

COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84962195568     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1515129113     Document Type: Article

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